The Western Flyer is famous for being the fishing boat that John Steinbeck and his biologist friend Ed Ricketts used on an ecological adventure in 1940 in Moss Landing, Calif., on Thursday, Nov. 2 ...

The coastal city of Monterey, California, caters to a wide variety of travelers, from hikers, bikers and kayakers to families ...

John Steinbeck died in 1968, and Thomas Steinbeck died in 2016. The text of the letter has been published for worldwide audiences, including in 1989's "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters," by Penguin Books.

John Steinbeck’s Western Flyer boat transformed into floating classroom on Monterey Bay. Aboard the same fishing vessel Steinbeck used for his 1940 Sea of Cortez expedition, undergraduates ...

In the early 1960s, when John Steinbeck agreed to serve as honorary chairman of the Old Whaler’s Festival in Sag Harbor, village folklore holds that the renowned author had one stipulation: No ...

Thomas Steinbeck, Novelist and Son of John Steinbeck, Dies at 72 Mr. Steinbeck, the author of a short-story collection and two novels, drew attention for a legal battle for rights to his father ...

Thomas Steinbeck, Novelist and Son of John Steinbeck, Dies at 72 Mr. Steinbeck, the author of a short-story collection and two novels, drew attention for a legal battle for rights to his father ...